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To: Ernest_at_the_Beach

I’m on my 4th HP pavilion basic black box. It has Windows 7 and probably all the memory I need. If I need more back up/storage, I have my MyPc Backup on line backup service.

It cost a little less than $500 including CalifornicatoR’s sales tax.

My HPw2216h, 22 inch monitor is still going strong after outlasting the previous computer. I turned the new computer off and plugged in my old monitor, and it was recognized immediately when I turned my new computer on.

Most of the time, our Comcast connection is fast enough for what I do. This past week, probably due to the aftermath of Sandy and the election, it has been somewhat slow.

With Comcast and the on line backup services, even a crashed computer can be fairly easily replaced. It took longer to drive to Office Depot to buy the new computer and return home, than to get back on line.

Two weeks after getting the new computer, our printer died after lasting longer than the two black box plain Jane/John computer.

My new lowcost HP3050A printer prints and copies whatever my wife and I need. It cost much less than a dinner for 2 in Wino land. It took much longer to unpack the new printer and put the old printer in the box, than it did to get my new printer on line and printing again.

The printer is easier to use and to make copies. My computer ludite wife learned how to make copies in about a minute and makes several copies each week.

A younger female Apple addicted relative has the new Mac computer, which she paid 6 times what I paid. It doesn’t seem to be any faster than mine, and her kids like my old monitor better.


19 posted on 11/09/2012 9:42:02 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Tagline space for rent to pay for some of my extra taxes the next 4 years!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Perfect. It fits right in my comment about our younger female relative on my reply.

20 posted on 11/09/2012 9:48:55 AM PST by Grampa Dave (Tagline space for rent to pay for some of my extra taxes the next 4 years!)
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